What does the Holy Grail look like?
Defining Open Data in Archaeology
and the related issues
Anthony Beck, Andrew Bevan, Stefano CostaWorking Group on Open
Data in ArchaeologyOpen Knowledge Foundation
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"A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use,
reuse, and redistribute it subject only, at most, to the
requirement to attribute and share-alike"
http://opendefinition.org/
Open Data has momentum
Open Government Data
Freedom of Information
(Cultural|Economic|Political) Value
Open (Research|Science)
Community-driven (WP, OSM)
Linked Open Data
Raw Data Now! (2009)
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
Open Government data.gov.uk
data.southampton.ac.uk
Open Science
Archaeological Data?
Open Archaeological Data
Open Archaeological Data thedatahub.org
Open Archaeological Data
Episodic basis
Most (if not all) from US and UK
Slow evangelisation towards open licenses
Sustainability?
Long-term preservation?
Agenda
Individual and institutional advocacy
Ethics and consensus building
Knowledge transfer
Institutional advocacy
Funding
Publication
Open data as an integral part, not an after thought
Individual advocacy
Higher impact ( ~ open access literature)
Peer pressure (domain specific)
Open data and interoperability
Data first, inter-project consistency later
Open licensing more important than rich semantics?
Let's keep computer scientists busy!
One star is a star(t) Available on the web (whatever format) but
with an open licence, to be Open Data
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
Consistency?
Open Data and archiving, preservation
UK has a distorted perspective (ADS)
Countless projects in other countries do not achieve even
minimal standards of archiving and preservation
Open data should be done independently
Open data may be a way of preservation by dissemination
(Archive.org, Google)
Chaotic, decentralised, open
Google Refine
Ethics - 1
Sharing data across sovereign borders
Risks of Colonisation 2.0
Grace periods? (EAA: 5 years)
Ethics - 2
Specialisation Balkanisation
Archaeology Archaeologies
Whom are we trying to convince?
Ethics 3
Open data and the public
What does the public want?
Who is the public anyway?Wikipedia
Wiki Loves Monuments
Wikipedian in Residence
What should not be public?
Ethics 4
The case against Non commercial licenses
No clear definition
Commercial archaeology is vital and should not be excluded
Knowledge transfer
Avoid producing closed data
Avoid mixing of closed and open data
Best practices
What does the Holy Grail look like?
Defining Open Data in Archaeology
and the related issues
Anthony Beck, Andrew Bevan, Stefano
Costahttp://archaeology.okfn.org/
